(Of course, I notice they took that RomneyGuns.com web-site is down, but the damage was done.)

I really think this ad single-handedly cost Rmoney South Carolina in the primaries, and really hurt him in the South in general.

Newt is the main reason Virginia and North Carolina are even in play right now, due to serious lack of Republican enthusiasm down there thanks to Newt really slinging the mud.

If Santorum hadn't been such an arrogant P.O.S. and stuck in the race so long to split the conservative vote, I have no doubt Newt would have been the nominee.

Despite Newt's (many) faults, he would have been a much more formidable foe at this point in the race, I think. Without the "rich boy" handicap that is making it hard for Mittens to connect with the middle-class, and a much clearer choice for gun-owners in the general election as well.

Guess what? God’s name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform.

This is the paragraph that was in the 2008 platform:

“We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.”

Now the words “God-given” have been removed. The paragraph has been restructured to say this:

“We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth – the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.”

The only thing that has changed here is the paying of lip service to deity. It gets old seeing politicians hide behind the G-word just to try to add "appeal to authority" (a logical fallacy) to their arguments.

(In contrast, "God-given" appears multiple times in the 2012 Republican Party Platform.)

An armed intruder, spouting opposition to social conservatism, walked into the Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council on Wednesday and shot a security guard before the wounded guard and others wrestled him to the floor and subdued him until police arrived, authorities said.

They identified the suspect as Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28, of Herndon, who has a master’s degree from George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development. Corkins was in FBI custody Wednesday night; authorities had not filed charges against him.

The guard, identified by the Family Research Council as Leo Johnson, was shot in the arm before or during the incident in the lobby, D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said. She credited Johnson with preventing a tragedy by stopping the man, who was carrying a 9mm handgun, from reaching the upstairs offices in the group’s six-story building at Eighth and G streets NW.
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The Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group, deals in issues of faith, family and freedom, its Web site says. The organization opposes abortion and euthanasia, among other practices, and says it considers homosexuality to be a sin.

Gary Bauer, a former president of the Family Research Council and now head of American Values, cited “a disturbing level of intolerance and hate aimed at those who share traditional values.”
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Mitt Romney is on track to lose the Latino vote by a wider margin than any Republican presidential candidate in over a decade, and strategists in both parties say he may have made a bad situation worse with his selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

What’s clear is that Romney’s lagging fortunes among Hispanics are unlikely to receive any boost from choosing a vice presidential candidate who has voted in Congress against the DREAM Act and supports overhauling entitlement programs that are extremely popular among Latino voters.
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The Republican ticket’s dire position among Latinos has even stirred some hope among Democrats — and apprehension among some Republicans — that back-to-back smashing victories by President Barack Obama could move Latino voters in the Democratic column in a more durable way that could put the GOP at an electoral disadvantage for decades.
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“There is no issue that is more alarming for the future national viability of the Republican Party than this one,” said Steve Schmidt, who managed John McCain’s 2008 campaign. “The precipitous drop in the support levels for Republicans is alarming because it indicates that more and more Hispanics are simply disqualifying from consideration anyone with an ‘R’ next to their name.”
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If Latinos start voting 90% Democratic like AA's do, the Republican Party is going to have some SERIOUS problems for a long, long time to come. They are the fastest growing demographic in this country right now, and for the foreseeable future.

WASHINGTON — The White House made clear Thursday that new legislation on gun control will not be on the political agenda this election year, as President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney engaged in their most extensive discussions on the issue since last week’s Colorado theater shootings.

Their comments revived — if briefly — a sensitive debate that has faded to the background in national politics and been virtually nonexistent in this year’s close presidential race.

While Obama called for tougher background checks on Americans trying to buy a gun, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president is not pushing for new gun control legislation, though he still supports a ban on assault weapons. Carney said Obama intends to focus on other ways to combat violence.

Romney has said changing the nation’s laws would not prevent gun-related tragedies.

Sealing the matter, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate’s schedule is too packed to even have a debate on gun control. Asked if the Senate might debate the issue next year, Reid said: “Nice try.”

"It may feel like just another day at the office, but occasionally life feels more like an action movie than reality," says a narrator.

The City of Houston's website offers these tips:

- Run if a safe path is available. Always try and escape or evacuate even if others insist on staying.
- Encourage others to leave with you but don't let the indecision of others slow down your own effort to escape.
- Once you are out of the line of fire, try to prevent others from walking into the danger zone and call 9-1-1.
- If you can't get out safely, find a place to hide.
- When hiding, turn out lights, remember to lock doors and silence your ringer and vibration mode on your cell phone As a last resort, working together or alone, act with aggression, use improvised weapons and fight.

What would be the fall-out if there was an Electoral College tie? 269-269, neither Obama or Romney getting the magic 270 number to win?

Election results in key states would immediately be subject to legal challenges. Electors, normally an anonymous batch of party insiders elected to ratify each state's winner with their electoral votes, would be lobbied to change their votes by friends, neighbors and political leaders.

Ultimately, the House of Representatives could elect the next president, even if that candidate lost the popular vote.

"What it would reveal is that we have, in some sense, a profoundly undemocratic mechanism for dealing with a tie," said Alex Keyssar, a professor of history and social policy at Harvard University, and a critic of the Electoral College. "I think there would be an enormous outcry over that."

If you thought the 2000 elections were crazy with all the legal wrangling, this could very well tear at the very fabric of the system!

If the (currently) Republican-dominated House of Representatives chose Romney even though Obama won the popular vote... the OWS protests would look like child's play.

Think people threw a stink over the SCOTUS deciding 5-4 Bush over Gore?

The White House signaled Thursday that President Barack Obama would not be seeking new gun control laws in the aftermath of the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. But press secretary Jay Carney said Obama would try to find ways to work around the "stalemate" in Congress to keep firearms out of the wrong hands.

During a brief photo-op with his Cabinet, Obama himself sidestepped a reporter's question about how he would proceed without seeking new legislation.

"I'm sure we'll have more opportunity to talk about this," the president said.
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Good on you, Mr. President. The last thing we need is to give the Repukes ammunition by pursuing "feel-good" legislation that does little to address the problem of violence in our country and only pisses gun-owners off.

Let's get a Democratic Congress in there first and discuss the issue rationally before we "jump the gun" and do anything rash, based on emotion not on logic.

He made an interesting point, that he didn't expect any sort of cover-up to be revealed by the documents, but was puzzled at why the Administration is refusing to just release them and let Congress do its job of being able to investigate the Executive Branch, when it is accused of wrong-doing.

Erin Burnett kept trying to paint him into a corner suggesting that his vote was motivated by fealty to the NRA, but as he responded, he doesn't agree with the NRA's conspiracy theory, he isn't running for re-election, and doesn't plan to run again in the future. So his vote was purely his own conscience and consistency with his contempt vote against Bush officials back in 2008 as well.

Just gives some interesting insight into why some Democrats voted the way they did.

I see so any putting down Fox all the time but none of you are capable of finding them wrong in what they say.......if they was wrong dont you think that the Obummer administration would have shut them down by now? o therefore there has to be truth to it

...and a brilliant response:

No honey, there doesn't have to be truth. The President hasn't shut down the National Enquirer either.

I so hope the SCOTUS doesn't strike down the ACA tomorrow. These people are going to go ape-shit.